An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Permaculture Lessons From Fire: Restoring Paradise
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Samoan “Chief Tuiavii” on the Desperation of ‘The Papalagi’
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Candidate Forum for Environmental Justice in South LA with Fatima Iqbal-Zubair
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Flood Control to Free Rivers: The Tale of Water on Tongvalands
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Ocean Desalination vs Conservation and Human Rights
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
La Moskitia Archive
Lost White City “Discovered” in Honduran Jungle?
Posted on March 11, 2015 | 5 CommentsIn search for legendary “City of the Monkey God,” explorers ignore indigenous residents and archaeologists who have worked in the region for years, and shamefully claim to find the "untouched ruins" of a "vanished" culture found in the remote Moskitia region eastern Honduras.
Honduras: Narcotrafficking Leads to Native Dispossession, Deforestation
Posted on February 7, 2014 | 3 CommentsIn the isolated region of La Mosquitia, Honduras, narco-traffickers act as shock troops in the assault on native Miskitu, Tawahka, and Pech homelands, ruthlessly dispossessing residents and rapaciously converting forest commons to private pasture primed for sale to multinational corporations.
Miskitu Portrait: Lobster and Life on Laguna Caratasca
Posted on November 16, 2013 | 4 CommentsPuerto Lempira lies on the shore of the sweetwater Laguna Caratasca, just west of the Caribbean in La Moskitia, Honduras. The largest Miskitu town in the region, with an ailing lobster industry in an atmosphere of post-coup insecurity and governmental corruption, many turn to drug trafficking for income.
Miskitu Coast of Honduras: Village Life in Tide-Flooded Kruta
Posted on November 2, 2013 | 1 CommentOn a recent trip to the Kruta River near Cape Gracias a Dios on the Honduran Caribbean and the Nicaraguan Border, life without roads and little electricity proceeds slowly, detached from the world at large. As sea levels rise, already economically-marginalized coastal villages in the mangrove swamps are slowly being inundated by the rising tides.
Central America: Indigenous Targeted in US-Sponsored Counterinsurgency
Posted on May 31, 2012 | 2 CommentsA US-taxpayer-funded war on drugs in Central America is expanding with "Counter Terror Squads," targeting indigenous people, citizen activists, and even independent journalists. It must be stopped.
Honduras: World Heritage Biosphere Trafficked Toward Destruction
Posted on December 12, 2011 | 8 CommentsDeforestation, the proposed damming of pristine rivers for hydroelectricity, and destruction of indigenous communities threatens the wildest and most biodiverse corner of tropical Central America: The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
Honduras: Patuca River Dams Threaten Indigenous Survival
Posted on July 26, 2011 | 9 CommentsThe Moskitia is the largest, most biodiverse expanse of tropical wilderness north of the Amazon Basin – and the Indigenous Peoples who live there are determined to keep it that way. Unfortunately, no greater threat exists to the natural wealth hidden in the "Mesoamerican Biological Corridor" than the gigantic, transnational Patuca II, IIA, and III Dams.
